Lewis



(No Model.)

G. W. LEWIS.

SEAL LOCK.

No. 388,208. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

INVENTOR WITNESSES I ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES ATENT tries.

GEORGE WVASHINGTON LE\VIS, OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF,ALEXANDER P. GRIOE, AND LE ROY O. GOODVVIN, OF SAME PLACE.

SEAL-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,208, dated August21, 1888.

Application filed October 17, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE \VASHINGTON LEWIS, of Portsmouth, in thecounty of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented a new andImproved Seal-Lock, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to seal-locks for securing a freight-car door inclosed position with a seal secured to the fastener, so that the tlatter cannot be released without breaking the seal, and has for itsobject to provide an effective seal-lock.

The invention will be set forth in the following description and claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 represents the seal-lock in sealed position, showing a portionof door-post and section of a car-door and parts broken away.

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof,partly in section.

Fig. 3 is a view of the seal-lock with a modi iication in seal,and partsbroken away and in 2 section disclosing the fastener. Fig. 4 is a viewcorresponding to that in Fig. 1, showing another modification of seal;and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of a eardoor and post, and withseal-lock in plan view.

To secure freight-car doors in place, it has been customary to employsome means of fastening the door when closed, which may be locked by anysuitable means, and to detect whether the door has been unfastened andopened it has also been customary to apply a fragile seal to thefastener, so that it cannot be released without breaking the seal.

In the construction of this invention a locking-block, 1, of metal, ispivoted eccentrically in a slotted metallic casing, 2, formed with a lipor flange, 3, and a projecting arm, 4, and preferably east in one piece.The casing 2 is inserted in a hole or opening made in a slidingcar-door, 5, near its rear end, and is se- 5 cured in place by screws 6or other suitable means, passing into the door through holes in the lip3, which is let into the door. IVhen the door is closed, the slottedcasing 2 is lo cated adjacent to door-post 7, to permit the portion 8 oflocking-block 1 to be removed in Serial No. 252,571. (No model.)

front of the door-post 7 and side 9 of a car. The block 1 is formed witha lip or projection, 10, by means of which it may be thrown in and outof engagement with post 7.

Any suitable means may be employed to seal the block 1. For this purposeI preferably use a pin or plug, 11, of lead or other soft metal, havinga head or enlarged portion, 12, and inserted in a hole, 13, located inlip 10 just above projection 4 on the casing 2. The end of the pin 11 isupset or compressed by a pair of nippers, so as to be spread, as shownat 20, whereby the pin cannot be drawn out of the hole 13, and the block1 thus effectually sealed, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In lien of thismeans of sealing the fastener, the old form of seal, consisting of alead disk, 15, and wire 16, may be used, as shown in Fig. 3. The wire 16is passed through a hole, 17, in the block 1 and a corresponding hole inprojection 4, and is secured within disk 15 by compressing the latterwith a pair of nippers.

Another form of seal may be used, as in Fig. 4, where a label or stripof paper, 21, 1s pasted to the door 5 and block 1. The latter may belocked when in engagement with the door by any suitable means, as, forexample, by a padlock, 18, as shown in dotted lines, its link passingthrough a hole, 19, in projection 4, located in front of the lip 10.

\Vhen the door 6 is open, the block 1 rests in the position shown indotted lines. In employing the seal-lock, upon the door 5 being closedand the slotted casing 2 brought past door-post 7 the portion 8 of block1 is moved in front of 85 post7 by means oflip 10. Thelead pin 11 isthen inserted in hole 13 and its projecting end up set or compressed bya tool to spread over the hole 13, as at 20. The fastener is thensealed, the head 12 resting on project-ion 4. Upon 9o releasing theblock 1 from the door by pulling on lip 10, the projection 4 cuts thepin 11 and tears off the head 12. In like manner the seal is torn. inthe modifications in Figs. 3 and 4, heretofore described. 5

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with car-door 5, having slotted casing 2, ofeccentric locking-block 1, I00

pivoted therein, lip 10, having hole 13, soft- 3. The combination, withslotted casing 2,

metal pin 11, and arm 4, projecting from the having projection 4, andlocking-block 1, ec-

side of the car adjacent to lip 10, snbstantiall y centrica'lly pivotedin said casing, having lip as described. 10, with perforation 13, of afragile seal, sub- 5 2. In seal-locks, as a new article ofmanufacstantially as set forth.

ture, a car-door fastening. consisting of slotted I metallic casing 2,having projection 4, and the GEORGE VASHINGTON LEWIS locking-block 1,having lip 10, with perfora- Witnesses: tion 13, and eccentricallypivoted in said cas- ROBT. S. GRANT,

:0 ing, substantially as described. J. M. BINFORD.

